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----------------------March 2008: CONGRATULATIONS to Tanya Renner !! for receiving an NSF predoc and passing her comprehensive exams/advancing to candidacy on the same day! ---------February 2008: Chelsea Specht received the 2008 Prytanean faculty award from the Prytanean Allumni Association. (more on the Prytanean faculty award ) ---------January 2008: CONGRATULATIONS to Madelaine Bartlett!! Recipient of a 2008 National Research Foundation / South African Biosystematics Initiative Scholarship for her doctoral research on Plant Developmental Evolution - - Look for Nhu's paper on Allium in MPE. - Look for Madelaine's paper on epi-luminescence microscopy in Development, Genes & Evolution - Tanya, with help from Heather and Juliana Cho, got VIGS to work in Zingiber !! Keep an eye out for their upcoming publication. ---------October 2007: - Look for Chodon Sass' publication in PLoS ONE on barcoding in Cycads. - Congratulations to Ana Almeida, recipient of a Fulbright fellowship. Ana will be starting her doctoral research on floral developmental evolution in Richterago (Asteracee). ---------May 2007: - Congratulations to Chodon Sass on successfully passing her qualifying exams !! - Congratulations to Sankar Sridaran for winning an outstanding presentation award at the CNR Honors Symposium. - Contratulations to Yizhuo Wang for winning an outstanding poster award at the MCB Honors Symposium. - Congratulations to Hillary Cooper, Sankar, and Yizhuo for completing Honors thesis degrees and graduating from UC Berkeley 2007 WITH HONORS!! - Congratulations to Laura Lagomarsino, recipient of a 2007 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and a Smithsonian RTP fellowship. |
